Sales assistant - Sales Assistant The Clinkard Group  Employee Review

- Supportive Management - Friendly staff - Good training - Systems simple to use - Friendly customers - Good environment - Christmas gift from the company - 25% discount

- Slow days make it long - Staff have been with the company a long time so there isn't much opportunity for career advancement - The pay for my age band is 10p above minimum wage - they do not automatically go to national living wage once you are 18

The people I directly worked with are mostly wonderful, and they are the reason I look back in working there fondly. The shop itself wasn't too chaotic and we had regular costumers that made it a very familiar environment.

When I was promoted to manager I found out the recently hired supervisor was earning 50p per hour more then me. When raising an honest concern about a staff member to the regional manager I was told to go and tell that staff member directly and apologise for going over their head or they would do it for me. The higher ups were old fashioned and often misogynistic. A previous manager was forced to personally serve and provide discount to a man that had harassed her and followed her into the shop because he wanted her phone number. He complained to costumer service because he was unhappy with how "rude" she was.